The mozilla project has been developing their cross platform front end, which has been ported (among others) to QT and GTK+... It seems to be quite comprehensive, allowing you to write in applications in HTML/XML and Javascript... Or just C++ if you prefer.:)
Personally, I think that *some* of Microsoft's products have no equals in quality in the land of Linux...
For example, Dev Studio is pretty remarkable in it's integration, ease of use, and speed... yes some linux IDE's are coming a long way, and yes many people prefer to type make, but there are more people that done and would prefer not to... these are the people writing the "killer apps".
The Microsoft Office suite is also an amazing piece of technology... it seems that every release keeps getting more and more bloated as time goes on (Office 2000, from what I heard is a POS, which is why I still run '97, but anyways)... and yet it's still responsive, easy to use, and feature full. Unfortunately with something like Koffice, or AbiWord, etc... you run into limited functionality and buggy implementations even more often then MSOffice (which is scary)...
Microsoft may be a easy target to hate, but for many things they are more realistic. Lay users and most developers WILL NOT use command line tools unless they have to. (fact of life). Linux is making HUGE strides in the right direction, but it just takes time.
-Chris
btw, I have linux installed on two machines at home, and greatly enjoy it's stability and functionality... I'm not a linux basher, and I'm not bashing linux here...
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See: XPFE homepage for more info.
-Chris
Personally, I think that *some* of Microsoft's products have no equals in quality in the land of Linux...
For example, Dev Studio is pretty remarkable in it's integration, ease of use, and speed... yes some linux IDE's are coming a long way, and yes many people prefer to type make, but there are more people that done and would prefer not to... these are the people writing the "killer apps".
The Microsoft Office suite is also an amazing piece of technology... it seems that every release keeps getting more and more bloated as time goes on (Office 2000, from what I heard is a POS, which is why I still run '97, but anyways)... and yet it's still responsive, easy to use, and feature full. Unfortunately with something like Koffice, or AbiWord, etc... you run into limited functionality and buggy implementations even more often then MSOffice (which is scary)...
Microsoft may be a easy target to hate, but for many things they are more realistic. Lay users and most developers WILL NOT use command line tools unless they have to. (fact of life). Linux is making HUGE strides in the right direction, but it just takes time.
-Chris
btw, I have linux installed on two machines at home, and greatly enjoy it's stability and functionality... I'm not a linux basher, and I'm not bashing linux here...